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Russia and Georgia are on the verge of a full-blown war over disputed territory, and Georgia, which President Bush has pushed to join NATO, wants the US to back it up. Cato explains that this is the explosive danger our NATO expansion - pulling the US into a war with Russia over a tiny plot of ground half way around the world. NATO existed to thwart the Soviets. When the Soviet Union collapsed, NATO's reason for existence collapsed with it. The Europeans, for all intents and purposes, abandoned NATO except as a means of leveraging the US into conflicts we had no business being involved in. Now NATO expansion threatens to drag us into a war with Russia. Nice job, Bush.

Mexican troops on US soil hold US border patrol agent at gunpoint. Why would Bush allow this to be swept under the rug?

Cato reports that Pakistani President Musharraf, by reappointing previously ousted judges, may have split the lawyers and saved himself from impeachment.

Now the Clintons are having to try to prove they want Obama to win. How funny.

Excellent British sitcom scene talking about school choice and the British equivalent of the Department of Education. Why can't we get a show on the air like this in the US? Is there any richer mine for humor than government incompetence?

A slower economy and lack of coolness are restricting the green movement. Good thing. German town requires residents to put up solar panels. Requires. I bet they lose population.

Woman sentenced to 5 years probation for running a website with fiction, with no pictures, of child molestation and murder. I don't ever want to read it, but that's government out of control. I bet prosecutors don't like this website either.

It's good to know our troops can retain a sense of humor.

Government aristocrat Andrea Mitchell questions whether average Americans, dumb as we are, will get the joke about the cartoon on the New Yorker cover the same what sophisticated New Yorkers will. Maybe she was talking about the way Barack Obama missed the joke.